The pylons of the Pearl River Crossing are three electricity pylons with heights of 240 metres, 253 metres, and 80 metres. They carry the 500kV-three phase AC powerline between Jiangmen and Sha Jiao in Guangdong, China at the crossing of the Pearl River. The 253 metre high pylon was built on an artificial island in the Pearl River and is the highest pylon in the world. The 240 metre high pylon is situated at the east side of Pearl River, while the 80 metre high pylon stands on the west side of the river. The span width of the line between the 253 metre and the 240 metre high pylon is 1547 metres. At this span the line is at its deepest point in a height of 70 metres over the Pearl River. The span width of the two crossbars of the 240 and the 253 metre high pylons are 63.5 metres and 54.5 metres. The pylons at the Pearl River Crossing were built in 1987. A pylon is a tall steel lattice structure used to support overhead electricity conductors for power transmission. ... The Metre (or Meter) is the base fundamental unit of length in the metric measurement system as defined originally by the French Academy of Sciences during the French Revolutionary–Napoleonic war era, and subsequently adopted by various successive International Standards Committees as the utility, elegance, and self-consistency of the... City lights viewed in a motion blurred exposure. ... The Sino-British Restaurant, a renovated building along Changdi Middle road in the waterfront district. ... Guangdong (Simplified Chinese: 广东; Traditional Chinese: 廣æ±; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Kuang-tung; Postal System Pinyin: Kwangtung or Canton Province, Jyutping: gwong2 dung1), is a province on the south coast of the Peoples Republic of China. ... The Pearl River (ç 江 Pinyin: ZhÅ« JiÄng) is Chinas third longest river (2,200 km, after the Yangtze River and the Huang He), and second largest by volume (after the Yangtze). ... Before Mexico City, Tenochtitlan was an artificial island of 250,000 (Dr Atl) Dejima, not allowed direct contact with nearby Nagasaki Formoza (Gdynia) The World in Dubai An artificial island is an island that has been formed by human, rather than natural means. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The pylons of the PearlRiverCrossing are three electricity pylons with heights of 240 metres (787 feet), 253 metres (830 feet) and 80 metres (262 feet).
The 253 metre high pylon was built on an artificial island in the PearlRiver and is the highest pylon in the world.
The 240 metre high pylon is situated at the east side of PearlRiver, while the 80 metre high pylon stands on the west side of the river.
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